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PRICE TWO CENTS
ON TRAINS AND NIWI
STANDS FIVE CENTS
OF!
ALLIES ARE
FIII'IiEl
Enthusiastic Greeting Is Given
Entente Troops by People of
Northern Russian City, Says
London Official Announcement.
Landing Which Took Place Friday
Carried Out With Assistance of
Naval Forces Port Is Largest
on Northern Coast.
6. (I. N. S.)
JLi Allied forces have landed at
Archangel, in northern Russia.
Official announcement to this ef
fect was made this afternoon.
..(Archangel is the chief port on
the northern coast of European
Hussla, on the White sea. it is
connected with Petrograd by rail
way. Previous forces had been
landed on the Murman coast, to
the west of the Archangel dis
trict.) The landing was carried out wlth-the
assistance of naval forces and the ac
tive concurrence of the Russlaa popula
tion. An enthusiastic greeting was given
the entente troops by the Inhabitants of
the city.
The soldiers were lauded Friday.
Bolslirxiki Vote Big Sum
Amsterdam. Auk. 6. (I. N. S.) The
Fiolshevikl reclme at Moscow has vot
ed 200,000,000 rubles for war against the
t Caecho-fcUvs, according to advices from
Berlin today.
A counter revolutionary plo: has been
discovered at Vologda. Forty army of
ficers were arrested there.
Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik foreign
minister, has arrived at Petrograd. Do
mestic conditions are still serious and
the cholera is Increasing at Moscow.
At, 'he outbreak of the war a ruble
was worth 51 cents in American money.
Assassin's Plot Frustrated
Washington. Aug. 6. I. N. S.) A
nlot to assassinate Premier Lenlne and
Foreign Minister Trotsky of the Bolshe
vik government, on the occasion of the
first audience with the new German am
bassador to Russia, was frustrated, ac
cording to Swedish press dispatches
reaching the state . department this aft
ernoon.
Refuses to Declare War
Ixmdon. Aug. 6. (I. N. S.)--Fremler
Lenlne refuses to declare war, as the re
sult of Sie negotiations of Japan's Inter
vention Into Russia, said a dispatch from
Uowow this afternoon.
The dispatch added, howrver, that the
war Issue may be forced despite the
growing antipathy among the Russian
people.
Bolsheviki Arrest French Officers
Amsterdam. Aug. 6. Ten French of
ficers have been arrested .by the Bol
tl'.evlkt at .Taroslav. charged with co
operating with social revolutionaries
against the Russian government, ac
cording to a Moscow dispatch received
here today via Berlin.
The dispatch also said that other en
tente officers have been arrested In Vo
lopda. Jaroslav Is on the Volga river, 160
miles northeast of Moscow. Vologda,
119 miles farther north, housed the em
bassies of the allied countries until re
cently, following their removal from
petrograd.
Formpr Russian Minister Murdered
Amsterdam. Aug. 6. M. Stiejenko,
former Russian minister of education,
was murdered on a Btreet in Poltawa by
a social revolutionary, according to the
Cologne Gazette.
ROLL OF HONOR
Vhin'ttnn. Au. 6. (1. N. S.) Thru
army nd two mrtn corps cultte ItaU wen
Inmied tody. The- irmj list conUined 358
nnn, dtTidrd fojlowi:
Thtrty-nne kiUwl In action, ii died from
wnun,l. 313 wounded -erljr. seTen wounded
decree undetermined, and one made prisoner.
The marine lioU contained 140 name, dlrided
j (ollowt;
Keren killed in action, three died from
wound received in action. Ill wounded In
action, degree undetermined. IS aerereljr wounded
in action and one liKhtly wounded In action.
Tin army rtaualty list contained today the
name of Lieutenant Quentin Rooeerelt as "killed
In action" and buried. The additional officer
In the army list were a follow:
Severely Wounded
Captain John I.. Lninn, Happance. N. Y.;
AlTin Colhurn. Washington. D. J. ; Roland C
Mindley, Houlton. Maine; Daniel W. Kiniaynon.
Iicknnw. Canada: Albert Nathneae, West
Menomlme. Wis,; Lieutenants Harold F. Bid
well, ltartford. Conn.; Earl H. Brock man,
. wtiier, mano; nernert u. Yveyrnan. Caledonia
Mi.; Weir W Wieoff, St. Charlea. Minn.;
. Pewman 11. Items, wausau, wis.; Wesley ti.
Brooker, l.mdtrom. Minn.; Randolph K.
Brown, Rome. N. Y. ; Albert Clements. Brook
lyn. . V; James T. Ilartney. Maynard. Minn.;
William H. Howard, Lockport. 11L; George H
Morgan, Brooklyn, V Y.; George C. Pilking-
ton. rarker. a. u. : Kobert U Harburn. Hur
ley. 8. D. ; A. B. Thall. 2S30 Cherokee street.
Bt. Upuis: tngar c. esterrelt. Lincoln, Neb.;
Dudley W. Woodsrd. New Amsterdam, Ind.
The marine officers in the list included:
Waundad In Action ( Degree Undetermined)
Captain Robert W. V'oetb, Pttttburg. Kan
sas; Lieutenant Charles Z. Leslie r, Carbondale
Pa.; Cli II. Murray, Kenefick, Okla. : Charles
KtlMTidge, isorfoliv Va.; Walter S, Faut Jr.
Westhejford, Tx: David A. Rutherford,
Pawtwket, R. L: Albert O. Skelton, Corvalll,
(Concluded on fig Ten, Column On)
LA
AIRPLANE TO
CUT TIME! TO
COAST, PLAN
WASHINGTON', Aug. Exten
sion of the mall; air service
from Sew York to Chicago is
being considered by the postoffice
department, It was officially an
nounced today. This route wonld
est the time between' these two
cities In half and wonld bring the
Pacific Coast IS hoars closer' to
Sew Tork and the Atlantic sea
ports. 1
Six additional, planes; for the air
mall service between Washington
and w Tork will be inspected to
day at the plant of the Standard
Aeroplane company, Elizabeth, .
J., by representatives of the post
office department. The specifica
tions of these plans call for a speed
of 100 mlieg an boor. j
Within the next week, possibly
August 10, the postoffice depart
ment Will assume full control of
the air mall service, relieving the
war department. I
COMMITTEE CALLS
Senate Military Affairs Commit
tee kst: Information on
1 Man Power Bill.
Washington, Aug. 6. il. X. s.)
Provost Marshal General Crowder was
called before the senate military affairs
committee today when the first hearing
on the new man-power bill was held.
Crowder stated before entering the
meeting that he did not I know why he
had been called, as all the information
he had on the subject had been Incor
porated in his letter to Secretary Baker,
which was filed by Senktor Chamber
lain. The provost marshal j. general told
members of the committee that the
amendment to the present selective ser
vice act substituting the words "occu
pations and employments" Instead - f
"Industries, Including agriculture" were
because It was thought that the draft
boards should "have a wider scope" in
the control of exemptions and of men
between 32 and 45.
lie said that the date lof registration
suggested, September 5, vas only tenta
tive and that the . department niay
change this. It was planned, Crowder
told committee members, to make the
registrations and the drawing fall on
the same day. j
Rason for Change Sought
General Crowder was i closely nues-
tioned by the members of the commit
tee, who were anxious to learn the rea
son for the war department's about-face
or. the subejet of changing draft ages.
It was recalled that Secretary Baker,
before the same committee several weeks
ago, said there would be no need of raid
ing or lowering the present ages. Gen
eral Crowder said he was unable to
throw any light on this question, and it
was decided to have General March,
chief of staff, appear before the com
mittee tomorrow. If Secretary Baker
returns from his Western trip In time,
l.e, too, will be summoned.
Senator Chamberlain said that there
were now 1,700,000 men In the canton
ments or the country, and; at the present
i ate of shipping them overseas it would
lequlre six months to moVe them.
May Recall Congress
The advisability of callins: bark hoth
houses of congress for immediate con
sideration of the bill was canvassed at
a series of conferences today. Senator
Chaimberlain, chairman of the senate
military affairs committee, believes that
thte draft bill can be reported out by his
committee later this week and is In
favor of having the senate assembled
and ready by that time, i
Chairman Dent of the house 'military
affairs committee on the,other hand. Is
not inclined to back Senator Chamber
lain. It is understood that he is op
posed to the proposal to lower the draft
age and Is not In favor of "ruShJng the
bill through."
Farmer Run Over
By Wagon; Killed
Horse Takes Fright While August Be.
nllla Is Loading Man ore and Victim
Thrown Under Wheels; j Jfeck Broken.
August Renilla, an Italian farmer, was
almost instantly killed I this morning
when he was run over by! his own horse
and wagon at East Twenty-third and
Woodward avenue. The front wheel
passed over his neck, breaking the ver
tebrae. i
According to the statements of George
New, wire foreman for the P. ,R., X,. A
P. company, Renilla was loading manure
Into a light farm wagon, which he, was
going to take to his farm, three miles
south of Lents. The horse became
frightened several times at the moving
of the wires by the linemen, but was
quieted. Finally he reared. Both New
and Renilla seized his head, but they
could not hold him. The horse darted
across the street and Into some brush.
Both men tripped In the brush and Re
nilla was thrown under the wheel. New
waa thrown under the wagon and
crowded between the axle and the
ground. His back was sprained. He
lives at 1074 East Eleventh street
nortn. sam ana joe Renilla, sons of
the dead man, are said to work at the
.1 . c l 1 a m .
nruiwesi ciicci plain. x lie DOdy was
taken in charge by Deputy Coroner
Goetsch.
Cholera Epidemic in
Petrograd Spreads
Amsterdam, Aug. 6. (I.i N. S.) There
are 20,000 cases of the Asiatic cholera In
Petrograd, according to tfie Hamburger
Fremaenoiatt.
One thousand of the nw cases have
proved fatal.
-The epidemic .is spreading.
GEN. CHOWDER
t L
10 Hll GULF
Weather Bureau Predicts That
Violent Tropical Storm Will
Strike at Some Point Between
New Orleans and Galveston.
East and Middle West Is Swelter
ing in Hot Wave; Many Die in
Congested Districts of Thickly
Populated Communities.
H
OUSTON, Texas, Aug.
G. All wire com
munication with Or
ange and other points east
of Galveston on the Gulf
coast went out this after
noon in a heavy wind storm.
Government warnings
posted here indicated the
hurricane would strike the
coast between Galveston
and the south of the Sabine
river.
HOUSTON, Texas., Aug. 6. A
violent tropical hurricane is
headed for the Gult coast and
probably will strike somewhere
between Galveston and New Or
leans within ihe next 24 hours,
according to weather bureau offi
cials here" today.
Storm warnings have been is
sued to shipping. The". storm is
reported to be of unusual vio
lence. The barometer was falling rap
idly this afternoon and the wind
velocity had greatly increased at
2 o'clock.
At that hour it was believed
the storm was not more than
300 miles off the gulf coast.
Washington, Aug. 6. A record break
ing heat wave is sweeping the western
and central states, the weather bureau
announced today. Many high marks
have been shattered and today prom
ised to be the hottest August day In this
section in years.
In Toledo the official temperature has
reached 102, the highest in the history
of the weather bureau for that district,
while the following records were estab
lished for August heat :
Pittsburg, 100 ; Evansville, 104 : jChi
cago, 102 ; Columbus, 104 ; Indianapolis,
102, Davenport, 104.
The August record for heat was bro
ken Sunday in Omaha and Des Moines,
when 110 was reached.
The highest temperature ever re
corded by the bureau Is 130 in the des
ert lands in Southwestern United States.
It was Just 116 above at an open door
shop at the - navyyard today, where
white hot Ingots were being turned out
to make munitions for Uncle Sam.
At 3 p. m. the official temperature
here was 104, the hottest August here
in the history of the weather bureau.
100 Degrees in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Aug. 6. One man Is
dead here, four persons in a serious con
ditlori and scores of others have been
overcome as the result of the heat. The
temperature at 3 p. m. this afternoon
registered 100 degrees.
Two thousand employes of the Pusey
& Jones, shipbuilding company emit
(Concluded on Page Fire. Column Two)
Shipyard Labor May
Ask $1 Hour Wage
Philadelphia, Aug. . (L N. S.) The
seriousness of the labor situation in
the shipyards of the Pacific coast was
further emphasized today when ' prior
to the second day's conference between
the officials of the Emergency Fleet cor
poration and representatives of labor
and capital. It was intimated that the
shipyards would be "starved out" if la
bor leaders insisted on a too substantial
raise in wages.
It is believed that labor representa
tives will ask the Macey board in Wash
ington next week for a minimum scale
of a dollar an hour, which is far in ex
cess of the present scale. To overcome
this, it is believed that the Pacific
coast yards will not receive as many
shipbuilding contracts as in the' past,
and the labor situation will thus take
care of itself.
Ambulance Driver
Dies From Wounds
Paris, Aug. 6. (I. N. S.) The follow
ing American ambulance drivers, serving
with the French army, have been re
ported killed or wounded :
Lester P. Harris, Johnson City, Tenn.,
died of wounds.
William L. Morgan, Honolulu, Hawaii,
wounded by a bomb splinter.
. . Albert C. Armstrong, Duluth, Minn.,
seriously wounde
FEW
Aged Man Slays
One Son, Wife of!
Another, Then
Takes Own Life
James Crane, Mrs. Claude Crane
and Father, Wm. Crane, Vic
tims; No Motive Known, j
4
Dallas, Or.. Aue. 6. For reasons not
determined, William Crane, 68, Monday
afternoon shot and killed his son, Jarhes
Crane, 33 ; another son's wife, Ars.
Claude Crane, 19, and committed Sui
cide. ;
The tragedy took place on a srriall
farm in the McTimmonds valley, about
20 miles from Dallas. First intimation
of It was when Claude Crane returned
o the farm about 4 o'clock Monday aft
ernoon, after an hour's absence, found
me Doaies or nis wire and father m
the house and his brother breathing his
last In the front yard. The brother had
evidently been trying to escape when
shot.
"Father did It," said the wounded
man. Claude put him in an automobile
and started for the nearest neighbor's,
a mile away. James was dead when
the house was reached.
Coroner Chapman and Sheriff Orr
were called to the scene of the tragedy
and conducted an inquest, later bring
ing the bodies to this city. The Cranes
had lived on the place about a year,
coming from Boise. Idaho.
FARRELL HEAD OF
N. P. TERMINAL CO.!
Succeeds J. P. O'Brien, Whose!
Jurisdiction Is Extended to
Include Terminals.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Northern Pacific Terminal company of j
Oregon this morning, J..P. O'Brien re-1
signed as president of the company. J. I
D. Farrell, manager of the corporate in- j
terests of the Union Pacific system in
the West, was elected to succeed him.
Property owned by the Northern Pa- i
cific Terminal company consists of the !
Union station and terminal yards in
Portland. The stock of the eompany is
owned by the Southern Pacific company,
Northern Pacific railway and 0-W. J. &
company. Mr. O'Brien was made a
director of the company In 1905 and has
been president since 1913. 1
Mr. O'Brien's resignation followed ad
vices received today from R. H. Aish
ton, regional director of the - North
west, extending his jurisdiction as
federal manager of the roads in Ore-;
gon to include the facilities ofj the
terminal company. Mr. O'Brien is now
manager, under the United States rail
road administration, of the llnej of
the O-W. R. & N. company, all linos
of the Southern Pacific company north
of Ashland, the San Francisco & Port
land Steamship company, the Psiclfic
Coast Railroad company and i the
Northern Pacific Terminal company of
Oregon. ;
Mr. Farrell, who was formerly pres
ident of the O-W. R. & N. company,
is now manager of the corporate in
terests of the Union Pacific system
west of the Missouri river. Including 38
subsidiary corporations. His election
to the presidency of the Northern Pa
cific Terminal company wil involve no
change in the management of ' that
company.
Germans Get Little
Grain From Ukraine
Washington. Aug. 6. (L N. S.) De
spite drastic requisitioning of harvests in
the Ukraine, Germany's attempts to se
cure grain there have been pitiful, ac
cording to advices from neutral sources
reaching here today. The last harvest
was 576,000 bushels, as against 13,000,000
bushels harvested by the Ukrainians In
1916, it was said.
-
Hun Airship Is Lost
in Attempted Raid
London. Aug. 6. (U. P.) Of jthree)
German airships which attempted a raid
on the east coast of England Monday
night, one waa brought down in flanges in
the sea and another was badly damaged
but probably reached its base, the ad
miralty announced today. i
The aircraft did not penetrate far in
land, i
All-American Flyers
Must Live Up to Their
'Hat in the Ring' Emblem
'(Following Is the teconil of the Eddie Ricken
btrker Miies, describing life tmong the American
airmen in Fntnc.) j
(Copyright, 1918, by the United Hrese)
With the American Airmein in
France, July 10. (By Mail.) "All
gimpers have to live up to the Jdea
of the sauadron emblem." explained
Lieutenant Eddie Rickenbacker, all
Amerlcan ace and former auto racer.
"Every man has a picture of a
hat in a ring on his machine.' That
means he is ready to fight at any
time, whether he wants to or not.
The squadron is sometimes known
as the hat-in-the-ring squadron.
But among ourselves it's the gimp
ers. We adopted the hat in the ring
as our emblem back in our trajning
days. Then it waa our hope tjo be
the first fighUn squadron to gjet to
the front . . , i
"Our commanding officer, who had
en
LB Li
HINTED AT
! BERLIN
Intimation Made That Germans
May Retire to Meuse River,
Practically Freeing France and
Two-thirds of Belgium.
Are Practicalfy at Bay Every
where, Facing Failure of Sum
mer Campaign, Used-up Re
serves and Fresh Americans
THE HAGUE. Aug. C The Ber
lin Vossische Zeitung, in a
pessimistic article, hints at, the
possibility of a German retreat to
the line of the Meuse, according to
advices here.
A neutral traveler, returning
from Berlin, declared today that
the "man on the street" there is
nervous and beginning to reckon
xn the ultimate defeat of Germany.
Such a retirement as hinted at
in the Vossische Zeitung would
mean the relinquishment of prac
tically all occupied French terri
tory and two thirds of Belgium.
The Meuse river, rising 25 miles
south of Neufschateau, flows
northward through .Verdun,
crossing the Belgian border south
of Dinant. It turns sharply north
eastward at Namur, flowing
through Liege and crossing the
border into Holland near Mamm
strich. By William Philip SImmi
United Frr" Stiff Oorrestxmdest
Writh the British Armies In France.
Aug. 6 Crown Prince Rupprecht's read
justment of his line, especially abandon
ment of the plateau west of th Avre
from Montdidler to the confluence of the
Luce, Is very significant, as the plateau
gave observation of the entire valley of
the Noye and the Amiens-Paris railway,
threatening it.
The German armies are at bay. Their
(Concluded on Pace Two. Column flTe)
10a Suffragettes
Put Under Arrest
Washington, Aug. 6. (I. N. S.) One
Ifundred and eight members of the Na
tional Wroman'is party were arrested late
this afternoon when they attempted to
stage a demonstration opposite tho
White House without first having ob
tained a permit for the meeting. The
arrests were made on complaint of
Colonel Clarence N. Ridley, superintend
ent of public buildings and grounds, who
earlier in the day had hinted that the
meeting would be broken up by the po
lice If the women did not secure the nec
essary permit.
The demonstration waa styled a pro
test against the administration for delay
in passing the Susan B. Anthony amend
ment."
Berlin Keports No
Losses in Retreat
Amsterdam, Aug. 6. A semi-official
statement issued in Berlin claims the
withdrawal in the Marne pocket Thurs
day night waa effected without the
loss of a single man and after the re
moval or destruction of everything use
ful to the enemy.
Allied official and unofficial dis
patches reported the capture of 1000
cannon, thousand of machine guns and
hundreds of thpusands of shells as the
result of this retreat.
flown with the French, used to have
a hat as the emblem on his machine.
Someone suggested that we take the
hat,; but draw a ring around it, car
rying out the idea of ex-President
Roosevelt's statement that we were
ready to fight any time.
"The hat we had in mind then was
a derby, and someone suggested,
when we were discussing the em
blem, that it be made Uncle Sam's
hat, with stars and stripes on it.
The idea was a gimper itself, and
we soon designed an Uncle Sam hat
in a ring of red, white and blue on
each machine.
"For a long time we could say
nothing of the emblem, but finally a
couple of the boys were forced down
in Germany. I can't say we noticed
any difference in the way the; Ger
man flyers treated us, for they never
ICoatlatted oa Pig Twa,klumn Four)
75,000 Germans
Out of Fighting
As Consequence
Of Present Drive
40,000 Prisoners, While Tens of
Thousands Other Boches.Are
Dead in Pocket.
By Webb Miller
United Press Buff Correspondent
Paris, Aug. 6. (U. P.) One of the
most important results of the present )
fighting, aside from regaining the initia- j
tive, recovering French territory and
wiping out the menace to Paris. i3 the
effective depletion of Oerman man
power.
Since July 15 Ludendorff has hurled no
less and probably more than 750.000
men against the allies, of whom 75,000
will never fire another shot. More than
40,000 of these are prisoners. Tens of
thousands are buried in the Rheims
Solssons pocket or are lying in German
hospitals permanently malified.
In some places the former enemy bulge
is still cobbled with Boche dead, the
French and Americans having no time
to bury them. Reports received from
Switaerland state that long trains be
hind the German lines are- bearing off
wounded; to the already congested hos
pitals. In man power alone the allies have
dealt the enemy a staggering blow, from
which he cannot recover. German power
passed its zenith months ago, while
daily, almost hourly, the allied strength
is growing as every Amerncan troop
.ships touches these stores.
SIZE AND NUMBER
OF EDITIONS CUT
War Industries Board Issues Or
ders for Newspapers to
Enforce Rigid Economy.
Washington. Aug. 6. The war indus
tries board is preparing pledges to be
sent to paper mills and newspapers, as
suring drastic economy in the use of
paper, including reduction of 15 per cent
on weekday editions and 26 per cent on
Sunday editions.
The board has also ruled that during
tha war "no new newspapers shall be es
tablished." In weekday editions newspapers are
lequlred to reduce 6 per cent reading
matter up to 50 columns, 15 per cent In
matter over 60 columns up to 70 col
umns, 30 per cent over 70 and up to 90
columns, and 50 per cent on all addi
tional space over 90 columns.
Sunday editions must be reduced as
follows:
Ten per cent in reading mater up to
150 columns. 20 per cent over 150 and
up to 200 columns, 30 per cent over 200
and up to 250 columns, 40 per cent over
250 and up to 300 columns, 50 per cent
over 300 and up to 350 columns, and 60
per cent in all reading matter over 350
columns.
If the conservation Is not accomplished
by October 1, additional curtailments
will ibe put into effect then. Computa
tions on reading matter are based on the
six months period between January and
July, 1918.
W. A. A. C. LEADER
VICTIM OF U-BOAT
Warilda Survivor Tells of End
of Miss Violet Long, Chief
Controller.
London. Aug. 6 (I. N. S.) A graphic
description of the sinking of the Brit
ish transport Warilda by a German sub-
marine on Saturday was given today by
Miss Charlotte Trowell of the women's
auxiliary army corps, one of the sur
vivors. "I was thrown from my hunk by the
explosion and hurried on deck." said
Miss Trowell. "Just as I got there thn
stairway was blown up. I was put Into
a lifeboat along with the wounded, but
as the vessel sank the davit ropes were
cut and we tipset. All were thrown Into
the water. I clung to a rope and an
American officer and an Australian
pulled me into another boat. The
wounded in this boat insisted that I be
wrapped In their blankets. Never will
I forget the end of Mrs. Violet Long,
chief controller of the women's auxiliary
irmy corps. She clung to the boat into
which I had been dragged. I caught her
hair, and as I did so she exclaimed :
" 'Oh, save me. My feet are fastened.
I have lost my foot.'
"Her feet had become entangled in a
rope, but finally she was freed. A sailor
managed to get her into the boat, but
she collapsed, fell back and was
drowned.
"We were in the boat about two hours
before a rescue vessel put in an appear
ance. "An officer gave the order to lift up
the wounded first, but the wounded
shouted :
" There Is a girl aboard. You go up
first. Missy."
"It was Impossible to reach the cot
cases in the lower part of the Warilda j
and it was terrible to hear the groans
of the helpless men as they were drown
ing." There were 600 sick and wounded on
the Warilda. Of these 123 are missing.
Four Planes Downed
By American Flyers
Washington, Aug. 6. American airmen
brought down four enemy planes on Au
gust 3, the French war office reported
officially today.
TABLELAND BETWEEH
HE MD Bt IS
POIDED Si' Hill
Germans Are Resisting Fiercely, While
High Lands and Crossings Are Sub
jected to Terrific Fire; Franco-American
Flyers Bomb Enemy's Pontoons
Two Boat Bridges Are Destroyed; Enemy
Artillery Fire Has Little Effect, but the
French Are Encountering Dense Ma
chine Gun Barrages as They Advance
By John De Gandt
PARIS, Aug. 6, 4 P. M. (O. P.) With the Germans
resisting fiercely along the Vesle, French heavy artil
lery on south bank of river this afternoon laid down
a terrific fire on the tableland between the Vesle and the
Aisne. The crossings of the Aisne were also heavily
shelled. Simultaneously, Franco-American aviators flew
over the enemy forces and dropped bombs on the pontoons
thrown across the Aisne by he Germans. Two of thess
were destroyed.
Thex enemy artillery fire is having little effect, but
French advanced troops are encountering dense machine
barrages. The French are awaiting the bringing up of
more artillery before attempting further advances in force.
By Lowell Mellett
With the French Armies in the Field. A up-. 6 2-10 P At 1
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French troops today maintained their bridgeheads across the
Vesle river despite two strong German counter attacks. A mill
on the edge of the village of Braisne, on the Vesle, six mite north
west, of Fismes, was occupied by the French during the night.
Two bridges in that region were also seized. The Germans are
still holding out in Braisne.
Machine gun emplacements have been established in, Braisne
and the enemy is making heavy resistance there. Artillery of both
armies is heavily shelling along the Aisne, Vesle and Oise rivers.
Farther north the French are solidly established on the banks
of the river Avre, north of Braches and Neuville wood. '
London, Aug. G. Since the Germans began their retreat from
the Marne the allies have captured a thousand gunsr thousands of
machine guns and millions of rounds of artillery ammunition,
agency dispatches received here from the front report.
By Heny G. Wales
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OX THE MARXF
VESLE FRONT, Aug. G, 8 A. M. (I. N. S.) North of
the Vesle river the Germans are resisting the onslaughts
of the Americans in order to gain time, but the doughboys are
slowly progressing toward the heights beyond the river.
Sunshine permitted air observations today and numerous air
planes were in the air reconnoitering.
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The Germans are making heavy resistance in an effort to delav
the allies until their heavy guns can be moved to the northern
bank of the Aisne.
By Fred S. Ferguson,
With the American Armies in France.
Aug. 6. (U. P.) German resistance con- 1
tinued today along the Vesle. Heavy
fighting is under way on the entire line.
The enemy is holding the heights along
the north bank of the. river. His ar
tillery fire has increased, while his ma
chine guns sweep the river crossings
and the approaches to the heights.
American artillery is pounding the j
Boche positions. j
Meantime additional allied Infantry
and other units have crossed the river.
The situation in Fismes Is peculiar
reminiscent of the days when the Amer
icans occupied Vera Crus. Although
the town is held by our troops, German
snipers are still concealed in building
and cellars. . Americans on both sides
of the Vesle are mopping up these
snipers and stray machine guns.
Weather- Slows Up Ope rat look.
Our advance forces are likely to con
tinue beyond Fiemes and let the rear
elements finish the mopping up opera
tions. .
America cavalry is patrolling the
Fismes region. Rain has fallen and all
roads are semi-rivers. Fields are soft
under foot, men and horses sink deep in
the mud at every step. The banks of
the Vesle are more marshy than ever,
making operations slower and more dif
ficult. In spite of these handicaps, the Americans-
continue to feel out the German
lines, constantly pressing forward. The
Vesle in this region is about 15 meters
rabout 50 feet) wide and is swift and
deep. ' Crossings were made, however,
over parUally wrecked bridges, the men
climbing over the wreckage, that still
protruded ibove water.
Heavy Lotset Inflicted
Stiff fighting marked the taking of
Fismes. The Boches had extensive ma
chine gun defenses and rather .heavy
artillery concentrations. ,
Kxtended artillery preparation pre
ceded the American attack, smashing
some of the machine gun nests and put
ting a few batteries out of action.' Then
the infantry stormed the others, fight
ing partly through tho streets and
partly in the open and driving the ene
my beyondhe river, which divides the
town. Another smash, threw the Boches
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completely out of the city, except for
the snipers.
Just prior to the attack on Fismes
the Americans Inflicted bloody losses
on the enemy as the latter retreated
down the heights south and east of the
town. The Americans reached the
crest of the heights as the Boches were
retiring down the slopes. Our riflemen
and machine gunners opened up a
deadly fire and soon carpeted the hill
side with German ded and wounded
Prtsoaer Mainly Tooths
Fismes was held by a German regi
ment with a special machine gvm de
tachment which, according to prisoners,
formed part of the reserves- of Crown
Prince Rupprecht's armies. The ma
jority of prisoners are between IS and
20 years old. Their best men have beet,
killed and replacements have been made
from young reserve divisions. Included
among the enemy divisions la this re
gion, however, are some , of the crack
guard regiments, as well as other types
of their best troops.
The Americans are Improving In their
work of cleaning up machine gun posi
tions without heavy loss.
Towns Searched for Spies
Every day they are encountering
tricks new to them, but are meeting
them by springing new tricks ef their
own. The Boches strung quantities of
barbed wire In the Vesle, but did not
retard the Americans' crossing. Possi
bly due to the hasty nature of their re
treat, the enemy left none of the devilish
devices behind that characterized their
retreat before the British on the Somme.
Every grenade or suspicious looking arti
cle found in any of the houses is care
fully handled.
In the meantime, careful search is
Deing maae in an oi me captured towns
for spies. The Boches have a 'trick of
leaving a spy in French or American uni-
form hidden in a town, to come out after
allied occupation.
French Cross Avre River
Paris. ' Aug. 6. (I. 7i. S.) Sharp
German counter attacks north of the.
Vesle river failed completely, .according
to the French war office today. The
German attacks went to pieces and the
French maintained their positions on
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